Word: sexism
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...hear them. Those who loved Mills in Pollyanna and The Parent Trap will be very disappointed with her voice. Everyone knows the songs and can sing along, but it would have been great to hear one of these characters, preferably the King, really belt one out. Worse still, sexism, classicism and European elitism (the three evil isms) abound in this musical: the fact that European culture is valued over Asian culture, the main reason for Anna's presence in Siam, is continually reinforced. But the royal kids are cute, the costume and set design are amazing and the Rodgers...
Edwards, who enrolled in the program 12 years ago as a kindergarten student, said she initially felt "horror getting into a bus to go to a place far away" and that she then underwent "trials and tribulations of racism, sexism and classism...
...team, the trio leads discussion groups on sensitive topics such as racism, sexism and classism. As individuals, they exist to provide an ear and a shoulder to first-years struggling with personal problems...
Alter is president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC), a band of resistance fighters against prevailing academic trends, mainly the ones--deconstruction, cultural studies, gender studies--that examine literature for its complicity in racism, colonialism, sexism and homophobia. Alter's group believes that lit-crit obsessions with race, gender and sexuality reduce imaginative writing to the sum of its crimes against humanity, losing sight of the ambiguous and magical ways in which novels, poems and plays really operate. (To make matters worse, a lot of that criticism is written in indigestible nuggets like "reification" and "de-contextualizing...
...popular within the profession. Can a small band of traditionalists hold it off? They look for signs of hope. In an issue last year of Lingua Franca, Duke professor Frank Lentricchia, a major figure in the politicization of literary studies, poured out his misgivings about "the pounding chatter about sexism and so on." Even if the profession succumbs for good and Othello is taught forever as just one more wrongful instance of white male shenanigans, Alter and his friends will still have the last consolation of literary critics. In a lot of wars, the best writing comes from the losing...